'These Fathers'

A Play in Three Acts

(James Lansdale Hodson)

(First Production)

Saturday 14 January 1928 Manchester 7.25-9

Presented by Victor Smythe

Alec Fairbrother - Tom Wilson
Raymond Fairbrother - Charles Nesbitt
Betsy Croft - Hylda Metcalf
Jonathan Croft - James Harcourt
Jackson Fairbrother - E.H. Bridgstock
Jarvis - A.C. Battford
Tom Taylor - Harold Cluff
Mrs. Sarah Sharples - Lucia Rogers
Richard Taylor - J.L. Hodson
Violet Taylor - Margaret Duff
Margot Dashwood - Ella Forsyth
Doctor Morris - D.E. Ormerod

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'The Laughter of Fools'

(H.F. Maltby)

Monday 27 February 1928 Manchester 9.35-11

Arranged and produced by Victor Smythe

Mabel Grieg - Edith M. Toms
Mrs. Grieg - Lucia Rogers
Bertie Grief - Harold Cluff
Elizabeth - Ella Forsyth
Doris Henley - Hylda Metcalf
Lt.-Col. John Basset Grief - Leo Channing
Hubert Hughes - Michael Voisey
Capt. Charles vidal - W.E. Dickman
Mr. Nuttall - E.H. Bridgstock
Mr. Plunket - D.E. Ormerod
Taxi Driver - Gus Elkington

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'One Man In His Times'

A fantastic chronicle of the life of William Shakespeare

(Ronald Gow)

Thursday 3 May 1928 Manchester 7.45-9.15

Presented by the Station Repertory Players

Written and arranged for broadcasting by Ronald Gow

Produced by Victor Smythe

The Boy from Stratford - Kenneth Burchill
A pedlar - Frank A. Nichols
Anne Hathaway - Margaret Halstan
Fulk Sandalls - D.E. Ormerod
John Richardson - W.E. Dickman
Anne Whateley - Lucia Rogers
A Justice of the Peace - E.H. Bridgstock
Will Shakespeare - Tom Wilson (his original part)
A Tavern Girl - Edith Toms
Burbage - E.H. Bridgstock
Earl of Southampton - Leo Channing
Henry Condell - Harold Cluff
Mary Fitton - Hylda Metcalf
A Jester - Charles Nesbitt
Mary (a Serving Maid) - Lucia Rogers
John (her Husband) - Frank A. Nichols
Puck - Enid Tordoff
John Falstaff - Edmund Bartlett
Shylock - Harold Cluff
Brutus - D.E. Ormerod
Rosalind - Ella Forsyth
Hamlet - W.E. Dickman

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